By Deborah Hassan
A number of Civil Society Organisations recently raised the alarm over an alleged attempt by the Legislators to alter the Electoral Act Amendment bill to, among others, raise the threshold for campaign funds and block electronic transmission of election results.
But speaking at plenary on Tuesday, July 6, 2021, Gbajabiamiala decried the reports after a a member of the House, Hon. Ugonna Ozurigbo, raised a point of order that his constituents had inundated him with calls over his alleged refusal to support electronic transmission of election results.
Ozurigbo said, “A number of Nigerians have been calling me to express worry about the alteration to the electoral act. I don’t know the information going around where they said that we carefully amended section 50 subsection 2 that the agreed electronically transmitted election result have been changed to manually transmitted. I think my privilege has been breached.”
Responding, the Speaker said the Committee working on the Electoral Act was yet to submit a report to the House.
He said, “the House will follow its normal procedure in considering clause by clause of the Bill when the Committee submits its report. I have asked the Chairman of the Committee and she told me that she was not aware of that.